A one hectare site outside Doha, Qatar, will soon host the Sahara Forest Project Pilot Plant. It will contain a unique combination of promising environmental technologies carefully integrated in a system to maximize beneficial synergies.

BMW has completed the installation of solar panels to provide solar energy for Zentrum Museum in Greenville, SC. In addition to the new solar panels they also installed three new electric vehicle charging stations throughout the main facility.

In a boon for the local solar industry, a team of researchers from Swinburne University of Technology and Suntech Power Holdings have developed the world’s most efficient broadband nanoplasmonic solar cells with an absolute efficiency of 8.1 per cent.